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Rebates for Consumer-Friendly LED Light Bulbs Coming Our Way?

Friday, October 19, 2012

Consumer rebate programs for products using new efficient technologies don’t guarantee market transformation. A good example of this is the low adoption rate of disappointing CFL light bulbs in California since the early 1990s, when the state’s utilities introduced their first CFL rebate programs. To prevent history from repeating itself, the California Energy Commission (CEC) [...]

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Can a Product Last Too Long?

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

A funny thing happened on the way to a new ENERGY Star Lamp program specification – a discussion on just how long our new LED light bulbs should last. The question popped up at the U.S. EPA’s stakeholder meeting I attended recently, held to discuss the draft specification for a new ENERGY STAR program to [...]

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Shedding Some Light on the New ENERGY STAR Luminaires Spec (v1.0)

Thursday, April 28, 2011

The recently published ENERGY STAR specification for luminaires takes effect on October 1, 2011. (See previous blog: ENERGY STAR Releases Second Draft of Luminaires Spec.) Here are a few of the final updates: The new spec limits the types of eligible luminaires to those consuming less than 250 W. The spec excludes “Luminaires employing screw [...]

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